January 2016-17
Painting already started → Russell and Chapple stretcher – 140 x 110. Primed cotton duck.
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Cobalt Blue / Cerulean Blue / Ivory Black / Raw Umber / Titanium White / Olive Green / Davy’s Grey / All Windsor & Newton
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Davy’s Grey / Green Umber / Scheveningen Warm Grey / Scheveningen Warm Grey Light / Turquoise Blue Deep / All Old Holland
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Variety of Sennelier and Michael Harding tubes
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Jackson’s Refined Linseed and English Distilled Turpentine. Michael Harding PM1 medium Beeswax Paste. Frog Tape.
Brushes / knives / rags / 15 and 25cm spreading knives for plaster / Liquitex Large Knife #17
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Two Haribo tubs I’ve had for nearly 20 years for mixing paint. No palette.
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Small studio at home. Can see the sea, Corporation Wharf cement depot and Cattedown Wharf fuel terminal buildings. Also across Plymouth Sound to Cornwall.
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Christmas / Abstract Expressionism at the RA and Rauschenberg at Tate Modern.
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Built Ikea children’s bed and wardrobe.
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Steve Reich – Music for 18 Musicians / Arvo Part – Frates & Spiegel im Spiegel/ Henryk Gorecki – Symphony No. 3 / Inner City – Good Life / Four Tet – There is Love in You / Fuck Buttons – Tarot Sport / Radiohead – A Moon Shaped Pool / Tortoise – TNT / Cable – Downlift the Uptrodden / Dorian Concept – Joined Ends / Floating Points – Elaenia / John Coltrane – A Love Supreme / Godspeed You! Black Emperor – Hallelujah! Don’t Bend! Ascend! / Godspeed You! Black Emperor – Yanqui U.X.O / Sonic Youth – Washing Machine / Aphex Twin – Richard D James /
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Sun / Mist / Rain / Sun / Rain (Thursday & Friday)
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Rachel’s – Music for Egon Schiele / John Coltrane – Ascension / Public Enemy – It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back / Can – Ege Bamyasi / Can – Tago Mago /
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Peter Hook – How Not to Run a Nightclub / Turps Banana – New York edition / Peppa Pig Goes Skiing / Painters Table blogs/ All boos in storage since moving house
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Hildur Gudnadottir – Without Sinking /
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‘Post-truth’ / ‘Alternative facts’. Everything has changed this week. ‘Hard Brexit’. Donald Trump. What can we do? Fight? Protest while we still can?
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Noticed drying times are different in this studio – some are drying more quickly (whites in particular), others more slowly. Must order more stretchers. Must tidy studio.
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Jake Liebezeit died today.
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Clumsy and precise. Balance and imbalance. Atonal. Tension. Repetition, removal/ reduction and interval. Space between elements. Edges. Emptiness. Traces/ pentimenti. Transparency and opacity. Informality. Depth. Flatness.
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“Cold exactitude is not truth” – Delacroix, quoted by Matisse.
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‘Storm Doris’ has just blown through. I think these names are both ridiculous and brilliant.
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Two Haribo tubs I’ve had for nearly 20 years for mixing paint. No palette.
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Small studio at home. Can see the sea, Corporation Wharf cement depot and Cattedown Wharf fuel terminal buildings. Also across Plymouth Sound to Cornwall.
—
Christmas / Abstract Expressionism at the RA and Rauschenberg at Tate Modern.
—
Built Ikea children’s bed and wardrobe.
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Steve Reich – Music for 18 Musicians / Arvo Part – Frates & Spiegel im Spiegel/ Henryk Gorecki – Symphony No. 3 / Inner City – Good Life / Four Tet – There is Love in You / Fuck Buttons – Tarot Sport / Radiohead – A Moon Shaped Pool / Tortoise – TNT / Cable – Downlift the Uptrodden / Dorian Concept – Joined Ends / Floating Points – Elaenia / John Coltrane – A Love Supreme / Godspeed You! Black Emperor – Hallelujah! Don’t Bend! Ascend! / Godspeed You! Black Emperor – Yanqui U.X.O / Sonic Youth – Washing Machine / Aphex Twin – Richard D James /
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Sun / Mist / Rain / Sun / Rain (Thursday & Friday)
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Rachel’s – Music for Egon Schiele / John Coltrane – Ascension / Public Enemy – It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back / Can – Ege Bamyasi / Can – Tago Mago /
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Peter Hook – How Not to Run a Nightclub / Turps Banana – New York edition / Peppa Pig Goes Skiing / Painters Table blogs/ All boos in storage since moving house
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Hildur Gudnadottir – Without Sinking /
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‘Post-truth’ / ‘Alternative facts’. Everything has changed this week. ‘Hard Brexit’. Donald Trump. What can we do? Fight? Protest while we still can?
—
Noticed drying times are different in this studio – some are drying more quickly (whites in particular), others more slowly. Must order more stretchers. Must tidy studio.
—
Jake Liebezeit died today.
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Clumsy and precise. Balance and imbalance. Atonal. Tension. Repetition, removal/ reduction and interval. Space between elements. Edges. Emptiness. Traces/ pentimenti. Transparency and opacity. Informality. Depth. Flatness.
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“Cold exactitude is not truth” – Delacroix, quoted by Matisse.
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‘Storm Doris’ has just blown through. I think these names are both ridiculous and brilliant.
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